The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-10

Oglesby and is to be forwarded to him
with the formal petition for clemency.
Parsons, it is understood, acquiesces in
its contents, and will ad-
dress DIRE QUA a separate o letter of
Engle and Fischer steadfastly refuse,
however, to go on record with any such
declaration. The following is the letter
in full:
CHICAGO, Nov. 1887.
Governor Richard Oglesby, Springfield, m:
SIR: In order that the truth may be
known by you, and the public you
represent, we desire to state
that we never advocated the use
defense. To accuse US of having at
tempted to overthrow law and govern
ment on May 4, 1856, or at any other
time, is as false as it is absurd. What
ever we said, or did, was said and done
publicly. We have never conspired or
plotted to commit an unlawful act.
While we attacked the present social ar
rangements in writing and speech and
exposed their iniquities, we have never
from having planned the killing
of anybody at the Haymarket, or any
where else, the very object of the meet
ing was to protest against the commits
sion of murders. We believe it to be
our duty, as friends of labor and liberty,
to oppose any other use of force than
in the necessary defense of sacred
rights against unlawful attacks. All
our efforts have been in the direction
of elevating mankind, and to remove,
as much as possible, the cause of crime
no motives of personal gain or am
O.
ands and thousands will bear
testimony to this. We may
have erred at times in our judgment;
yes, we may have Flowed mankind, not
wisely, but too WE'LL" If, in the ex-
element of propagating our views, we
were led into expressions which caused
workingmen to think that aggressive
force was a proper instrument of re-
form, we regret, we deplore the loss of
mick's, at East st. Louis and at the
Chicago stockyards.
Very respectfully,
A. SPIES,
MICHAEL SCHwAB,
SAMUEL FIELDEN. -
OGLESBY INTERVIEWS HUNT.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 5.-A small
army of newspaper correspondents be-
sieged the executive Office to-day, and
whenever the, Governor made his
with such a multitude of queries
that he, for the first time, adopted the
infiexible policy of saying nothing. Il
have resolved, - he said, Ito say moth
ing about the matter. If L talked to
the press at all, might say something
unguarded that I did not mean,
or / might be misunderstood
by you enterprising gentlemen
Hence, with fairness, must refuse tC
reply to any question regarding anarch-
lists matters" Not more than three OF
four hours were spent by the Governor
in his Office to-day, but nearly all that
time was spent in reading correspon-
dence and petitions pro and con
in the anarchist matter. 1t wa:
o'clock in the afternoon when the
governor returned from dinner, and
without opening his afternoon mail, ht
at once proceeded to the Office of At
torney-G General Hunt and remained
with that gentleman for over an
hour. This was Oglesby's first inter
view with Hunst since the latter's re-
turn from the late scene of action at
Washington, and the whole time was
consumed in the discussion of the an
archists' cases.
ENGEL'S ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
CHICAGO, NOV. 7.-Just before moor
to-day the anarchist Engel was visited
by DIR. J. L. Gray, assistant county
physician, to whom the anarchist made
partial confession of his attempted
suicide. In addition to swallowing
the laudanum, Engel said he took six
teen more morphine pills Friday night
DR.. Gray was amazed at this inteli
gence, but understood why they proved
Intellectual, when Engel said he had
the pills ever since he was brought tC
the Jail. That was exactly year and
half ago yesterday, and long since
the pills ceased to have any active
power, and Engel said he swallowed
sixteen pills at gulp Friday nigh
and walked his cell al
day Saturday, expecting at any m nI1
night and the morphine haC
no effect, he resolved to take the
laudanum. After his friends left il
the evening, he poured out six or sever
tablepOonfuls of the poison and tossed
| it off. DR.. Gray thinks the stuff was
purchased in some cheap drug stor'
and in consequence it was adulterated
and a very poor article of its kind
That is why the laudanum did not take
effect. The old man was made drowsy
| loud breathing was what led to the dis
covery. At first, he said he had beer
drinking whisky, but single glance a
| the pupils of the mans eyes wal
enough to convince DR.. Gray h
had swallowed opium in some
form. Coffee was given hin
| and he was made to exert himself
| and move about. The primary effect
such as it was, soon passed of and lef
the would-be suicide little bit dazed
This forenoon he was sleepy and con
L fxsxf rEyithAl hit fAlk0f5U0
When he found further concealmen
useless, he told why he wanted to die
1 He would rather die, he said, than e
to the penitentiary for life, and b.
would rather go OFF by the way o
poison than the route ordained by tn
law. He did not think he had fai
trial The old man said he had onl
made three speeches, and what b
seemed to regret most was that he ha
he found he was to be hung for speech
making. When asked by DIR. Ora
how long he had the laudanum, b
answer: "Oh. a long time, but woul
not tell how he got it or who gave
him.
THE TRNRET READY.
CHICAGO, Nov. THE gallOws upo
which the anarchists are to hang hs
been prepared, and is now in the bas'
l menu OF Tie county JAN uICAoolu
| Agent Benham was in the baSeme1
| Friday to look at the walls, as he ha
been told they we're defective and nee'
ed repairing. He found carpenti
there at work on the galloWs. The tV
old ones had been oYerhauled. One
them was found large enough for thre
and the other one had been changs
for four. The carpenter was hired
: Commissioner Hammelgarn. He d
? not work ON Saturday and there we
no noises to be heard in the shop
day, and it is to be inferred that Il
: gallows are prepared and ready 4
3 use.
= FOUND A FEW BOMBS.
!: CHICAGO, Nov. Tt is reported tn
1 | the police have discovered eleven dyn
= mite bombs, which were secreted in t
q Ihouse of an anarchist near the ga
i works on West Division street. T.
4 police were working on the case all d
Y Yesterday and have kept their d
d coVery very quiet. The matter, VIII
: it became known, caused great e
t element inGhe vicinity Of the jail.
81 THEY STILL HOLD OUT.
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